Deforestation, Air Pollution And Brasiliant Covid-19 Variant

Abstract

Brazil's Amazon, official COVID-19 toll under scrutinyBy Jake Spring, Eduardo Simões, Bruno Kelly: The largest of 9 states in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Amazonas has registered nearly 19.4 coronavirus-deaths per 100,000 residents, compared to 4.4 for all of Brazil, according to a Reuters-calculation based on the death toll released by the federal Health-Ministry on Thursday. The corona virus COVID-19 killed 422 people in Amazonas in April, according to the ministry. Yet death registry data from public-notaries indicates the ministry's statistics may far underestimate the actual toll." The Guardian, Jan 2021: Covid-19 eruption in Brazil's largest state leaves health workers begging for help. Amazonas, and particularly its riverside-capital Manaus, were pummeled by the epidemic's first-wave last April, when authorities were forced to dig mass graves for victims" And from: Monitoring air pollution from fires 09/09/2019 ESA / Applications / Observing the Earth / Copernicus / Sentinel-5P The wildfires that have been devastating the Amazon-rainforest

Deforestation Characteristic during a Period 2006 - 2020 over Tropical Forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

“…After 2019, the deforestation in Central Kalimantan slowed down and even negative that associated with the absence of long dry season and the occurring of COVID-19 pandemic. But otherwise, evidence reveals that the COVID-19 epidemic has prompted illegitimate, opportunistic forest cutting and mining in tropical nations, endangering forest ecosystems and the inhabitants that depend on them [52][53][54][55][56][57].…”